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- From: phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone)
- Newsgroups: ba.politics
- Subject: Re: More Child Molestors for Christ
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.055754.12930@netcom.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 05:57:54 GMT
- References: <105448@bu.edu> <1992Dec22.055306.7609@netcom.com> <1h7pm8INNf3l@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
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- In article <1h7pm8INNf3l@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> stephen@orchid.UCSC.EDU (x4604 (Hauskins)) writes:
- >>For example, it is biologically built into us to fear and be
- >>wary of heights. They've shown this in babies barely old
- >>enough to crawl.
- >>
- >>
- >I would like to see you document this study or studies, and
- >therefore at least give some credibility to this statement.
- >You are saying that the fear of heights is built-in
- >biologically?? Or is it that we simply have an awareness of
- >distances??? There may be 'no fear' involved at all. Besides
- >it would be very difficult, at best, to prove that an infant
- >has a fear of heights.
-
- No, not at all. They took babies just old enough to crawl, wired them with
- sensors, and placed them on an elevated surface, some sections of which were
- clear glass. Baby goes crawling around, comes to edge stops, smile goes
- away, sensors report immediate increase in heart beat, respiration, muscle
- tension and other "fear syndromes". It was a PBS Nova show.
-
- It also showed the grasping reflex (which goes away after 9 months), a reflex
- involving a kind of toe curling that also goes away (and can be used to
- determine age boundaries on babies with unknown birth dates), and the
- really incredible diving reflex.
-
- I think just the most recent issue of Sci. Amer. (not double checked) had
- an article on the abilities of very young babies to both count and to
- distinguish phoenemes in foreign languages (that they later lose).
-
-
- --
- I believe Gennifer Flowers.
-
- These opinions are MINE, and you can't have 'em! (But I'll rent 'em cheap ...)
-